Recent Books
The following table shows the books I've recently read or acquired. At the moment the title link points to the Powell’s page for the book, but at some point I'll have it take you to a full description of the book.
The main purpose of this page is to exercise my PostgreSQL database that I built from a Bookpedia export file. I really dig Bookpedia, but it's OS X only, and because it's closed source, I worry about all my book data being lost if I abandon OS X or if the developers abandon the program.
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Title | Copyright | Author | Publisher | Pages | Last Read | Purchased |
Swamplandia! | 2011 | Karen Russell | Knopf | 336 | Mar-2011 | Feb-2011 |
City of Refuge | 2008 | Tom Piazza | Harper | 416 | Apr-2011 | Nov-2010 |
A Visit from the Goon Squad | 2010 | Jennifer Egan | Anchor | 352 | Apr-2011 | Apr-2011 |
Piercing | 2007 | Ryu Murakami | Penguin (Non-Classics) | 192 | Apr-2011 | Apr-2011 |
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 37 | 2011 | Dave Eggers | McSweeney's | 256 | May-2011 | May-2011 |
A Moment in the Sun | 2011 | John Sayles | McSweeney's | 968 | Jun-2011 | May-2011 |
The Passage | 2010 | Justin Cronin | Ballantine Books | 766 | Jun-2011 | Jun-2011 |
East Is East | 1990 | T.C. Boyle | Penguin (Non-Classics) | 384 | Jul-2011 | Jul-2010 |
Shoplifting from American Apparel | 2009 | Tao Lin | Melville House | 112 | Jul-2011 | Jul-2010 |
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest | 2010 | Stieg Larsson | Knopf | 576 | Jul-2011 | Jul-2011 |
A Wild Sheep Chase | 1982 | Haruki Murakami | Vintage | 353 | Jul-2011 | Jul-2011 |
South of the Border, West of the Sun | 1992 | Haruki Murakami | Vintage | 224 | Jul-2011 | Jul-2011 |
Sputnik Sweetheart | 1999 | Haruki Murakami | Vintage | 224 | Jul-2011 | Jul-2011 |
After Dark | 2004 | Haruki Murakami | Vintage | 256 | Jul-2011 | Jul-2011 |
The Magicians | 2009 | Lev Grossman | Plume | 416 | Aug-2011 | Aug-2010 |
Next | 2010 | James Hynes | Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books | 336 | Aug-2011 | Aug-2011 |
The Accidental | 2007 | Ali Smith | Anchor | 320 | Aug-2011 | Aug-2011 |
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 38 | 2011 | Dave Eggers | McSweeney's | 253 | Sep-2011 | Aug-2011 |
The Magician King | 2011 | Lev Grossman | Viking Adult | 416 | Sep-2011 | Aug-2011 |
The Art of Fielding | 2011 | Chad Harbach | Little, Brown and Company | 528 | Sep-2011 | Sep-2011 |
Death and the Penguin | 2010 | Andrey Kurkov | Melville House | 240 | Oct-2011 | Aug-2011 |
Kapitoil | 2010 | Teddy Wayne | Harper Perennial | 295 | Oct-2011 | Aug-2011 |
The Visible Man | 2011 | Chuck Klosterman | Scribner | 240 | Oct-2011 | Oct-2011 |
1Q84 | 2011 | Haruki Murakami | Knopf | 944 | Nov-2011 | Oct-2011 |
The Lovers | 2010 | Vendela Vida | Ecco | 240 | Nov-2011 | Oct-2011 |
Train Dreams | 2011 | Denis Johnson | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 128 | Nov-2011 | Nov-2011 |
11/22/63 | 2011 | Stephen King | Scribner | 849 | Nov-2011 | Nov-2011 |
Reamde | 2011 | Neal Stephenson | William Morrow | 1,056 | Nov-2011 | Nov-2011 |
Beat the Reaper | 2009 | Josh Bazell | Little, Brown and Company | 320 | Dec-2011 | Dec-2011 |
Await Your Reply | 2009 | Dan Chaon | Ballantine Books | 324 | Dec-2011 | Dec-2011 |
Open City | 2011 | Teju Cole | Random House | 272 | Dec-2011 | Dec-2011 |
The Sisters Brothers | 2011 | Patrick deWitt | Ecco | 336 | Dec-2011 | Dec-2011 |
The Last Werewolf | 2011 | Glen Duncan | Knopf | 304 | Dec-2011 | Dec-2011 |
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 39 | 2011 | Dave Eggers | McSweeney's | 300 | Dec-2011 | Dec-2011 |
The Marriage Plot | 2011 | Jeffrey Eugenides | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 416 | Dec-2011 | Dec-2011 |
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | 2005 | Jonathan Safran Foer | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 368 | Dec-2011 | Dec-2011 |
Ten Thousand Saints | 2011 | Eleanor Henderson | Ecco | 400 | Dec-2011 | Dec-2011 |
Lowboy | 2009 | John Wray | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 272 | Dec-2011 | Dec-2011 |
The Sense of an Ending | 2011 | Julian Barnes | Random House Canada | 160 | Jan-2012 | Jan-2012 |
Lightning Rods | 2011 | Helen DeWitt | New Directions | 192 | Jan-2012 | Jan-2012 |
State of Wonder | 2011 | Ann Patchett | Harper | 368 | Jan-2012 | Jan-2012 |
The Devil All the Time | 2011 | Donald Ray Pollock | Doubleday | 272 | Jan-2012 | Jan-2012 |
Green Girl | 2011 | Kate Zambreno | Emergency Press | 268 | Jan-2012 | Jan-2012 |
Salvage the Bones | 2011 | Jesmyn Ward | Bloomsbury USA | 272 | Feb-2012 | Jan-2012 |
The Last Brother | 2011 | Nathacha Appanah | Graywolf Press | 208 | Feb-2012 | Feb-2012 |
The Cat's Table | 2011 | Michael Ondaatje | Knopf | 288 | Feb-2012 | Feb-2012 |
The Tiger's Wife | 2011 | Téa Obreht | Random House | 352 | Mar-2012 | Feb-2012 |
When the Killing's Done | 2011 | T.C. Boyle | Viking Adult | 384 | Mar-2012 | Mar-2012 |
Flatscreen | 2012 | Adam Wilson | Harper Perennial | 336 | Mar-2012 | Mar-2012 |
Arcadia | 2012 | Lauren Groff | Voice | 304 | Apr-2012 | Mar-2012 |
The Snow Child | 2012 | Eowyn Ivey | Reagan Arthur Books | 400 | Apr-2012 | Apr-2012 |
Start Shooting | 2012 | Charlie Newton | Doubleday | 320 | Apr-2012 | Apr-2012 |
Wild | 2012 | Cheryl Strayed | Knopf | 336 | Apr-2012 | Apr-2012 |
Angelmaker | 2012 | Nick Harkaway | Knopf | 496 | May-2012 | Apr-2012 |
The Newlyweds | 2012 | Nell Freudenberger | Knopf | 352 | May-2012 | May-2012 |
I Suck at Girls | 2012 | Justin Halpern | It Books | 192 | May-2012 | May-2012 |
Bring Up the Bodies | 2012 | Hilary Mantel | Henry Holt and Co. | 432 | May-2012 | May-2012 |
Life After Life | 2013 | Kate Atkinson | Reagan Arthur Books | 544 | May-2012 | May-2012 |
A Game of Thrones | 1996 | George R.R. Martin | Bantam | 720 | Jun-2012 | May-2012 |
How to Sharpen Pencils | 2012 | David Rees | Melville House | 224 | Jun-2012 | Jun-2012 |
A Clash of Kings | 1999 | George R.R. Martin | Bantam | 768 | Jul-2012 | Jun-2012 |
Gone Girl | 2012 | Gillian Flynn | Crown | 432 | Jul-2012 | Jul-2012 |
Canada | 2012 | Richard Ford | Ecco | 432 | Jul-2012 | Jul-2012 |
A Hologram for the King | 2012 | Dave Eggers | McSweeney's | 328 | Aug-2012 | |
A Naked Singularity | 2008 | Sergio De La Pava | Xlibris Corporation | 692 | Aug-2012 | Dec-2010 |
Cloud Atlas | 2004 | David Mitchell | Random House | 528 | Sep-2012 | Jan-2007 |
My Struggle | 2009 | Karl Knausgaard | Archipelago Books | 250 | Sep-2012 | Aug-2012 |
This Is How You Lose Her | 2012 | Junot Díaz | Riverhead Hardcover | 224 | Sep-2012 | Sep-2012 |
Beautiful Ruins | 2012 | Jess Walter | Harper | 352 | Sep-2012 | Sep-2012 |
Telegraph Avenue | 2012 | Michael Chabon | Harper | 480 | Oct-2012 | Sep-2012 |
The Twelve | 2012 | Justin Cronin | Ballantine Books | 592 | Oct-2012 | Oct-2012 |
The Round House | 2012 | Louise Erdrich | Harper | 336 | Nov-2012 | Oct-2012 |
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk | 2012 | Ben Fountain | Ecco | 320 | Nov-2012 | Nov-2012 |
May We Be Forgiven | 2012 | A. M. Homes | Viking Adult | 496 | Nov-2012 | Nov-2012 |
The Fault in Our Stars | 2012 | John Green | Dutton Children's | 328 | Dec-2012 | Dec-2012 |
How Should a Person Be? | 2012 | Sheila Heti | Henry Holt and Co. | 320 | Dec-2012 | Dec-2012 |
Building Stories | 2012 | Chris Ware | Pantheon | 300 | Dec-2012 | Dec-2012 |
HHhH | 2010 | Laurent Binet | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 336 | Jan-2013 | Dec-2012 |
The Orphan Master's Son | 2012 | Adam Johnson | Random House | 464 | Jan-2013 | Dec-2012 |
The Song of Achilles | 2012 | Madeline Miller | Ecco | 384 | Jan-2013 | Dec-2012 |
Fobbit | 2012 | David Abrams | Grove Press, Black Cat | 384 | Jan-2013 | Jan-2013 |
Magnificence | 2012 | Lydia Millet | W. W. Norton & Company | 256 | Jan-2013 | Jan-2013 |
The Yellow Birds | 2012 | Kevin Powers | Little, Brown and Company | 240 | Jan-2013 | Jan-2013 |
Where'd You Go, Bernadette | 2012 | Maria Semple | Little, Brown and Company | 336 | Jan-2013 | Jan-2013 |
Drop City | 2003 | T.C. Boyle | Penguin (Non-Classics) | 512 | Feb-2013 | May-2010 |
Wise Men | 2013 | Stuart Nadler | Reagan Arthur Books | 352 | Feb-2013 | Feb-2013 |
Storm of Swords | 2003 | George R. R. Martin | Perfection Learning | 1,216 | Mar-2013 | Mar-2013 |
My Struggle: Book Two | 2013 | Karl Ove Knausgaard | Archipelago | 375 | May-2013 | May-2013 |
The Ocean at the End of the Lane | 2013 | Neil Gaiman | William Morrow | 192 | Jul-2013 | Jul-2013 |
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running | 2007 | Haruki Murakami | Knopf | 175 | Jul-2013 | Feb-2009 |
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. | 2013 | Adelle Waldman | Henry Holt and Co. | 256 | Jul-2013 | Jul-2013 |
The Circle | 2013 | Dave Eggers | Knopf | 504 | Nov-2013 | Nov-2013 |
Night Film | 2013 | Marisha Pessl | Random House | 624 | Dec-2013 | Dec-2012 |
A Tale for the Time Being | 2013 | Ruth Ozeki | Viking Adult | 432 | Jan-2014 | Nov-2013 |
The Flamethrowers | 2013 | Rachel Kushner | Scribner | 400 | Jan-2014 | Jan-2014 |
Woke Up Lonely | 2014 | Fiona Maazel | Graywolf Press | 336 | Jan-2014 | Jan-2014 |
Tampa | 2013 | Alissa Nutting | Ecco | 272 | Jan-2014 | Jan-2014 |
Hill William | 2013 | Scott McClanahan | Tyrant Books | 200 | Feb-2014 | Feb-2014 |
The People in the Trees | 2013 | Hanya Yanagihara | Doubleday | 384 | Feb-2014 | Feb-2014 |
Bad Teeth | 2014 | Dustin Long | New Harvest | 320 | Apr-2014 | Mar-2014 |
My Struggle | 2014 | Karl Ove Knausgaard | Archipelago | 432 | Apr-2014 | May-2014 |
Another Great Day at Sea | 2014 | Geoff Dyer | Pantheon | 208 | Apr-2014 | May-2014 |
The Unthinkable | 2009 | Amanda Ripley | Harmony | 288 | Aug-2014 | Jul-2014 |
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage | 2014 | Haruki Murakami | Knopf | 400 | Aug-2014 | Aug-2014 |
The Bone Clocks | 2014 | David Mitchell | Random House | 640 | Sep-2014 | Sep-2014 |
The Magician's Land | 2014 | Lev Grossman | Viking | 416 | Sep-2014 | Sep-2014 |
Dark Places | 2009 | Gillian Flynn | Broadway Books | 349 | Nov-2014 | Nov-2014 |
The Leftovers | 2011 | Tom Perrotta | St. Martin's Griffin | 384 | Nov-2014 | Nov-2014 |
The Luminaries | 2013 | Eleanor Catton | Little, Brown and Company | 848 | Jan-2015 | Feb-2014 |
Station Eleven | 2014 | Emily St. John Mandel | Knopf | 352 | Jan-2015 | Jan-2015 |
Annihilation | 2014 | Jeff Vandermeer | Farrar | 208 | Jan-2015 | Jan-2015 |
Silence Once Begun | 2014 | Jesse Ball | Pantheon | 256 | Feb-2015 | Feb-2015 |
Dept of Speculation | 2014 | Jenny Offill | Knopf | 192 | Feb-2015 | Feb-2015 |
All the Birds, Singing | 2014 | Evie Wyld | Vintage | 240 | Mar-2015 | Mar-2015 |
Everything I Never Told You | 2014 | Celeste Ng | Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated | 304 | Mar-2015 | Mar-2015 |
An Untamed State | 2014 | Roxane Gay | Black Cat | 386 | Mar-2015 | Mar-2015 |
The Good Lord Bird | 2014 | James McBride | Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated | 432 | Mar-2015 | Mar-2015 |
Find Me | 2015 | Laura van den Berg | Farrar | 288 | Mar-2015 | Mar-2015 |
My Struggle | 2015 | Karl Ove Knausgaard | Archipelago Books | 350 | Apr-2015 | Apr-2015 |
A Little Life | 2015 | Hanya Yanagihara | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | 728 | Apr-2015 | Mar-2015 |
Against Football | 2014 | Steve Almond | Melville House | 192 | Sep-2015 | Sep-2015 |
Undermajordomo Minor | 2015 | Patrick Dewitt | Ecco | 336 | Sep-2015 | Sep-2015 |
Going Clear | 2013 | Lawrence Wright | Vintage Books | 448 | Oct-2015 | Sep-2015 |
Purity | 2015 | Jonathan Franzen | Farrar | 576 | Oct-2015 | Oct-2015 |
Delicious Foods | 2015 | James Hannaham | Little | 367 | Nov-2015 | Apr-2015 |
Fates and Furies | 2015 | Lauren Groff | Riverhead Books | 400 | Nov-2015 | Nov-2015 |
Not on Fire, but Burning | 2015 | Greg Hrbek | Melville House | 275 | Nov-2015 | Nov-2015 |
Sweetland | 2015 | Michael Crummey | Liveright Publishing Corporation | 336 | Nov-2015 | Nov-2015 |
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates | 2015 | Brian Kilmeade | Sentinel | 256 | Jan-2016 | Dec-2015 |
Lights out | 2015 | Ted Koppel | Crown Publishers | 288 | Jan-2016 | Dec-2015 |
Our Souls at Night | 2015 | Kent Haruf | Alfred A. Knopf, New York | 192 | Feb-2016 | Feb-2016 |
The Story of My Teeth | 2015 | Valeria Luiselli | Coffee House Press | 182 | Feb-2016 | Feb-2016 |
The Book of Aron | 2015 | Jim Shepard | Alfred A Knopf | 272 | Feb-2016 | Feb-2016 |
American Rust | 2009 | Philipp Meyer | Spiegel & Grau | 400 | Mar-2016 | Jan-2011 |
The Tsar of Love and Techno | 2015 | Anthony Marra | Hogarth | 352 | Mar-2016 | Mar-2016 |
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The Official Bar Guide to Darts | 2010 | Patrick Chaplin | Puzzlewright | 192 | Feb-2011 | |
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa | 2008 | Nicholas Drayson | Mariner Books | 208 | Feb-2011 | |
Finding Mars | 2011 | Ned Rozell | University of Alaska Press | 256 | Feb-2011 | |
The Pale King | 2011 | David Foster Wallace | Little, Brown and Company | 560 | Apr-2011 | |
The Screwtape Letters | 1942 | C. S. Lewis | HarperOne | 209 | May-2011 | |
A Dog's Purpose | 2010 | W. Bruce Cameron | Forge Books | 336 | Jun-2011 | |
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake | 2010 | Aimee Bender | Anchor | 304 | Jul-2011 | |
Holiday in a Coma & Love Lasts Three Years | 1997 | Frédéric Beigbeder | Harper Perennial | 300 | Aug-2011 | |
The Boy Detective Fails | 2006 | Joe Meno | Akashic Books | 328 | Aug-2011 | |
The Athlete's Palate Cookbook | 2010 | Yishane Lee | Rodale Books | 224 | Oct-2011 | |
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups | 2003 | Rob Neyer | Touchstone | 352 | Oct-2011 | |
Mark Bittman's Kitchen Express | 2011 | Mark Bittman | Simon & Schuster | 240 | Jan-2012 | |
Canning for a New Generation | 2010 | Liana Krissoff | Stewart, Tabori & Chang | 304 | Jun-2012 | |
The Control of Nature | 1989 | John Mcphee | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 288 | Jul-2012 | |
Devices and Desires | 2007 | K. J. Parker | Orbit | 672 | Jul-2012 | |
A Feast for Crows | 2007 | George R.R. Martin | Bantam | 784 | Nov-2012 | |
Ivyland | 2012 | Miles Klee | OR Books | 250 | Dec-2012 | |
The Patrick Melrose Novels | Edward St. Aubyn | Picador | 688 | Feb-2013 | ||
Bleeding Edge | 2013 | Thomas Pynchon | Penguin Books | 496 | Sep-2014 | |
A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall | 2014 | Will Chancellor | Harper | 384 | Jan-2015 | |
The Paying Guests | 2014 | Sarah Waters | Riverhead Books | 576 | Feb-2015 | |
Book of Numbers | 2015 | Joshua Cohen | Random House Publishing Group | 592 | Jul-2015 | |
Mort(e) | 2015 | Robert Repino | Soho Press | 368 | Dec-2015 |
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